Olivia Banner (UTDallas) will chair this Ends of Knowledge reading group and research seminar on the standardized patient. We’ll discuss questions which revolve around the critical stories researchers might articulate around the history of the standardized (and simulated) patient of healthcare intervention, the practice of standardization and its racializing and gendered consequences, as well as the figure of the proxy in healthcare and health humanities imaginaries.
Readings include a work-in-progress chapter from Olivia Banner’s forthcoming monograph.
To prepare, we ask that you read the following three texts (PDFs of which are available in the website’s members section):
Banner, Olivia. Chapter from a forthcoming work.
Bailey, Moya. ‘The Flexner Report: Standardizing Medical Students Through Region-, Gender-, and Race-Based Hierarchies’. American Journal of Law & Medicine 43, (2017): 209-223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098858817723660.
Mulvin, Dylan, ‘Living Proxies: The Standardized Patient Program’, in Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (London & Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021): 145-181. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11765.001.0001.
Please note that Olivia Banner’s work-in-progress chapter will only be circulated for those who sign up to the event through Eventbrite, link here. For access to other readings, please access the Members’ Area and/or contact James Rákóczi at james.rakoczi@durham.ac.uk or endsofknowledge@gmail.com.
Olivia Banner, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies and Affiliate Faculty of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research centers on digital health technologies and media, mental health technologies and media, and histories of health activism, and foregrounds how disability justice and crip theoretical analytics pressure the currents ends of knowledge production. Her first monograph Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities (2017) was a key part of conversations in forming the Ends of Knowledge network and her article ‘Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical Humanities’, Literature and Medicine, 34.1 (2016) remains one of the most significant interventions attending to race and racism in medical humanities.
Suggested Further Reading.
· Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays (Graywolf Press, 2014)
· Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, eds., Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life (Cornell University Press, 2009)
· Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (MIT Press, 2000)
Cover photo credited to Tim Cooper on Unsplash.